Subject: Re: Stats From: SpkEnglish@aol.com Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 00:47:38 -0400

Sender: owner-online-news@marketplace.com
Precedence: bulk
Status: RO
X-Status: 

Hi, Chris!

n a message dated 96-09-09 16:34:32 EDT, harperc@is.nyu.edu (Christopher
Harper) writes:

<< What I am trying to determine is whether any has done
 scientific work on the subject of scrolling.  I did learn that one major
 online content provider found that only 10 per cent of its users
 scrolled from the first screen.  So the provider resigned its pages to
 include NO scrolls.  I am looking for this kind of evidence if it
 exists.   >>

When the French naturalist Lamarck announced that after extensive research,
he discovered that after ten generations mice whose tails had been amputated
still gave birth to mice with tails, one journalist commented: Any damned
fool could have told him that in advance.  The more we worship the kackamamie
god of research, the more we lose our valuable instincts for common sense,
creativity and self-empowerment.  

Best,

Bob



 

+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
This message was posted to ONLINE-NEWS. http://www.planetarynews.com/o-n.html

From owner-online-news@marketplace.com Wed Sep 11 06:29:39 1996
Received: from marketplace.com (root@marketplace.com [206.168.5.232]) by cnj.digex.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id GAA12246 ; for ; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 06:29:39 -0400
Received: (from majordom@localhost) by marketplace.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA04840 for online-news-outgoing; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 13:42:20 -0600
Received: from server.indra.com (server.indra.com [204.144.142.2]) by marketplace.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA04835; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 13:42:14 -0600
Received: from indra.com by server.indra.com (8.7.4/Spike-8-1.0)
	id NAA03921; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 13:28:01 -0600 (MDT)
Received: from firewall2.startribune.com by indra.com (8.7.4/Spike-8-1.0)
	id NAA17730; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 13:28:00 -0600 (MDT)
Received: by firewall2.startribune.com; id OAA08575; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 14:26:38 -0500
Received: from mailserv1.startribune.com(132.148.25.25) by firewall2.startribune.com via smap (V3.1)
	id xma008554; Tue, 10 Sep 96 14:26:25 -0500
Received: from frostbyte.startribune.com by mailserv1.startribune.com; Tue, 10 Sep 96 14:30:56 CDT
Message-Id: <3235C0CC.7F09FC85@startribune.com>